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Carlos José
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Carlos José
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Posted by Carlos José
Carlos José
Courses Plus Student 12,431 Points

It is often used a term that I cannot recall being defined. And I'm not sure I am getting the term from pronunciation.

The term seems to be "breadcrumbs" and I noticed it in the previous video and now I'm curious of it's meaning. Any help on it's definition will be much appreciated. Maybe it was introduced before but I didn't notice if that's the case just reference me to the correct video. Thanks :)

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Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
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Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
14,268 Points

Breadcrumbs are a way to trace your way back up to the homepage. So if you're on a specific product's page, you're breadcrumbs would look like "Home > Products > Category > The Product", with the first three items being direct links to go back to those pages.

I think they are called breadcrumbs from when people would leave an actual trail of bread (or whatever substance) as they walked into a forest, that way they can follow the breadcrumbs back to find the way out.

Carlos José
Carlos José
Courses Plus Student 12,431 Points
Carlos José
Carlos José
Courses Plus Student 12,431 Points

Ok I get it is like a category based list of links that are displayed inline as a sequence.

Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
14,268 Points
Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
14,268 Points

Yup, you can see an example here: http://www.amazon.com/Apple-Keyboard-Compatible-v-10-6-8-MB110LL/dp/B005DPF08E/ref=lp_12879431_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1453824805&sr=1-2

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